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Where Are the Women Architects?

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Where Are the Women Architects?

By: Despina Stratigakos

A timely and important search for architecture's missing women For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become. Law and medicine, two equally demanding and traditionally male professions, have been much more successful in retaining and integrating women. So why do women still struggle to keep a toehold in architecture? Where Are the Women Architects? tells the story of women's stagnating numbers in a profession that remains a male citadel, and explores how a new generation of activists is fighting back, grabbing headlines, and building coalitions that promise to bring about change. Despina Stratigakos's provocative examination of the past, current, and potential future roles of women in the profession begins with the backstory, revealing how the field has dodged the question of women's absence since the nineteenth century. It then turns to the status of women in architecture today, and the serious, entrenched hurdles they face. But the story isn't without hope, and the book documents the rise of new advocates who are challenging the profession's boys' club, from its male-dominated elite prizes to the erasure of women architects from Wikipedia. These advocates include Stratigakos herself and here she also tells the story of her involvement in the controversial creation of Architect Barbie. Accessible, frank, and lively, Where Are the Women Architects? will be a revelation for readers far beyond the world of architecture.

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Princeton University Press

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1400880297

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Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

By: Despina Stratigakos

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Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

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How Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691234132

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Where Are the Women Architects?

By: Despina Stratigakos

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0691170134

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Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

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Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

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How Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II"--

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A Women's Berlin

Building the Modern City

By: Despina Stratigakos

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A Women's Berlin

Building the Modern City

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Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--BOOK JACKET.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816653224

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9780816653225

Hitler at Home

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Hitler at Home

By: Despina Stratigakos

A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad. Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator’s preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler’s bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator’s three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—to foster the myth of the Führer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler’s interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler’s homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler’s domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book’s rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler’s homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him. “Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year.”—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest “A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland.”—Roger Moorhouse, Times

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Yale University Press

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0300187602

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9780300187601

Hitler at Home

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A Women's Berlin

Building the Modern City

By: Despina Stratigakos

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Building the Modern City

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Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--BOOK JACKET.

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Where Are the Women Architects?

Where Are the Women Architects?

Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Where Are the Women Architects?

Where Are the Women Architects?

Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Hitler’s Northern Utopia

A Women's Berlin

A Women's Berlin

Hitler at Home

Hitler at Home

Hitler at Home

Hitler at Home

A Women's Berlin

A Women's Berlin

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